In Shadowland: A Seth Armitage Novel

by Timothy Ashby

The whole world mourned when Teddy Roosevelt’s heroic son Quentin’s plane went down behind enemy lines in the late days of World War I. Seven years later, the celebrated family discovers a horrible truth: the skeleton in the French grave is not Quentin’s. J. Edgar Hoover summons reluctant Special Agent Seth Armitage back to the Bureau to investigate. Armitage must travel the world to probe the mystery, and quickly becomes targeted himself by powerful and ruthless forces on both sides of the Atlantic who are committed to keeping the scandal secret—at any cost. The line between enemy and ally blurs perilously as Seth becomes enmeshed with a WWI vet turned assassin with whom he shares a strange bond, a beautiful double agent with a personal agenda, and the political madmen building the Nazi party. The complex web reaches ever deeper, until Seth finds himself forced to make the unlikely, yet believable—and terrifying—choice to protect or destroy the soon-to-be Fuhrer himself.

In Shadowland is a compelling historical thriller that gives rich character to real-life figures such as J. Edgar Hoover and Adolf Hitler. In his second book featuring Armitage, Ashby once again brings to life the emotionally-charged period between WWI and WWII, showing us that psychological wounds of war do not heal quickly, and the thirst for power and revenge runs very deep.

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Published November 16, 2016

About the author

Timothy Ashby worked in Washington, D.C. as a counter-terrorism consultant to the U.S. State Department, and a senior official at the U.S. Commerce Department. He held two Top Secret security clearances and worked with a number of colorful characters, including members of the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command.

Before and after his career in Washington, Ashby led a peripatetic life. Born in the USA, he spent his teenage years in Grenada, where he learned to surf, sail and dive, and where his lifelong passion for history and archaeology was inspired.

It was also in Grenada that he became passionate about writing, having the good fortune to be mentored by authors Martin Woodhouse and Dudley Pope. Mr. Pope named one of the characters in his Lord Ramage series “Captain Ashby,” in honor of the teenage Tim Ashby.

After moving to in Spain and then the UK, Ashby returned to Grenada in his early 20s. There he served as a director of various businesses until the Communist Revolution of 1979. Ashby received his PhD in International Relations from the University of Southern California. In the 1990s, he lived in the UK, earning an MBA degree at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and working in Central and Eastern Europe on a variety of privatization and economic development projects. He also has a law degree, and is a licensed attorney in Florida and Washington, D.C. He has been a successful entrepreneur, serving as CEO of several global companies that he founded. He is the author of Time Fall, Devil’s Den, Missed Opportunities, The Bear in the Back Yard, numerous articles, and the prize-winning ghost story, “Warrior’s Return.”

Reviews

[Shomeret · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had never heard of Quentin Roosevelt, but when I researched his death, it seemed to me that it should have been investigated. That's why I accepted a free review copy of In Shadowland in return for this review.

As expected, a number of Roosevelts and J. Edgar Hoover appear in this book. I hadn't expected Adolf Hitler to be as prominent a character as he turned out to be. With all the assassination conspiracies that swirled around Hitler even before he became the dictator of Germany, you would think that one of them would have been successful. Timothy Ashby provides a speculative theory about the rise of Hitler along with his hypothetical explanation of what really happened to Quentin Roosevelt. I thought that the conjectures presented by Ashby seemed very credible and well-researched.

In Shadowland connected the dots for me by giving me pieces of the historical puzzle that I was missing. I recommend it to people who are interested in events and historical personages between the two world wars.

For my complete review see http://shomeretmasked.blogspot.com/20...